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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A Prescott speech resembles a bull charging an imaginary matador .
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An oriental girl dressed as a matador wrenched off her domino and threw herself at me.
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Having weakened the bull, the matador in this Madrid fight at the last moment refused to deliver the fatal thrust.
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Inevitably, the Front, which had proved itself a great matador , chased a foolish illusion and became the bull.
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She had arrived with her parents some time ago but seemed to be dancing with a matador .
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Surely Emmeline would have discovered by now that he was not the matador ?
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The hapless matador eventually managed to leave the arena under heavy police protection; the fate of the bull was not documented.